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Onnik Krikorian

Regional Editor for Caucasus

About Onnik Krikorian

1068 posts · joined 2006-01-21

Onnik Krikorian is a journalist and photojournalist of Armenian and English descent who has been resident in the Republic of Armenia since 1998.

He also works extensively in the Republic of Georgia and until moving to Armenia worked on the Kurds in Turkey and the conflict in Nagorno Karabakh.

His articles and photographs have been published by The Los Angeles Times, New Internationalist, The Scotsman, Transitions Online, Middle East Insight, Oneworld.net, EurasiaNet, The Institute for War & Peace Reporting, New York University Press, UNICEF, and Amnesty International, among others.

He maintains blogs from Armenia and the South Caucasus at http://blog.oneworld.am and http://oneworld.blogsome.com and is the Volunteer Country Editor for Armenia at Oneworld.net.

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July 2nd, 2009

Central Asia & Caucasus

Social Science in the Caucasus sums up a recent talk given in Tbilisi about the state of democracy in Georgia. The blog says that democratization pushed from outside has exacerbated polarization and conflict in local politics.

June 24th, 2009

Western Europe , Central Asia & Caucasus

Scary Azeri in Suburbs informs its readers that a Baku-based English-language magazine has featured the blog in a two-page article. The magazine might not be Harpers, the blogger says, but it is real and more importantly, glossy…

Central Asia & Caucasus

The OL! Youth Movement blog [AZ] interviews Azeri blogger Nigar Fatali. The blogger at Don Quixote [AZ/RU] and Fighting windmills? Take a pill [EN] comments on matters as diverse as gender, education, conflict resolution, youth and culture.

June 23rd, 2009

Armenia: Opposition detainees releasedPhotos postVideo post

A small portrait of the translator Onnik Krikorian · 10:22 · Central Asia & Caucasus
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Following a general amnesty agreed upon by the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia on 19 June, several senior opposition figures on trial and in detention for over a year since the 1 March post-election unrest in the country were finally pardoned and released. Many observers believe the trials were politically motivated. 0 comments  · read »

June 22nd, 2009

Middle East & North Africa

Security, in the Caucasus and beyond…. comments on the recent election in Iran and its aftermath. However, the analytical blog focusing on a region which directly borders the Islamic republic says that both the governmental and opposition candidates in the disputed vote were products of the same system. The blog also says that it believes the protests are not a popular uprising, but a struggle for power between members of the establishment and ruling elite.

Middle East & North Africa , Central Asia & Caucasus

Following a post from Armenian blogger Ianyan in praise of women in Iran comes a similar response from Azerbaijan, another country that borders the Islamic republic. Re-posting an earlier video interview on the changing role of women in Iran, Baku-based Global Voices Online author Ali S. Novruzov also pays homage.

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